AVIATION: Gloomy Talk

Black-browed, snow-haired John Carlton
Ward Jr., president of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., is not
normally a Gloomy Gus. Generally he is too busy making good his promise
to build huge wood-veneer bomber-crew trainers"the biggest damn
airplanes out of wood that anyone ever thought of" (TIME, June 1,
1942). But last week, in his official capacity as president of the East
Coast Aircraft War Production Council, 50-year-old Carl Ward caught the
headlines with some very Gloomy-Gus talk. Said he:

> When war broke
out, aircraft manufacturing was a "sick industry"; when war...